John f. Kennedy was elected on November 8 of 1960. He was the first president to have a televised presidential debate. He made a legislated agenda known as the New Frontier that increased the aid in education, and provide health insurance. Durning his presidential time he help women expand their rights, and developed new programs to combat the spread of communism. He tried very hard to stay in front of the Soviet Union in Technology so he expanded the space program, he experienced his first war in the Bay of Pigs against the Cuban people believed to be in alliance with the Soviet Union. on November 22 of 1963 in Texas he was shot twice, once in the head and once in the throat while he and his wife where going through the crowed streets. Lee Oswald was later accused but in his hearing he was shot and others thought that maybe other gun men where involved with the shooting.
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